EXPLANATION: CAPITALS INDICATE MAT TER ADDED TO EXISTIN G LAW.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.
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HOUSE BILL 313
R4 5lr1254
CF SB 54
By: Delegate Korman
Introduced and read first time: January 10, 2025
Assigned to: Environment and Transportation
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ACT concerning 1
Motor Vehicles – Specially Designed Vintage Reproduction Registration Plates 2
FOR the purpose of repealing the time limitation within which the Motor Vehicle 3
Administration is required to make available specially designe d vintage 4
reproduction registration plates; requiring the Administration to charge certain fees 5
for the initial issuance and renewal of specially designed vintage reproduction 6
registration plates; and generally relating to specially designed vintage reproduction 7
registration plates. 8
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 9
Article – Transportation 10
Section 13–619.3 11
Annotated Code of Maryland 12
(2020 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 13
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 14
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 15
Article – Transportation 16
13–619.3. 17
(a) The Administration shall develop and make available for qualifying vehicles 18
a specially designed vintage reproduction registration plate. 19
(b) The owner of a vehicle, or a lessee of the vehicle under a lease not intended as 20
security, or a director, an officer, an employee, or a partner of a business entity that owns 21
the vehicle considered eligible by the Administration may apply to the Administration for 22
a registration plate under this section if the vehicle is included in one of the following 23
classes: 24
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(1) A Class A (passenger) vehicle; 1
(2) A Class E (truck) vehicle with a manufacturer’s rated capacity of 1 ton 2
or less; 3
(3) A Class L (historic) vehicle; 4
(4) A Class M (multipurpose) vehicle; or 5
(5) A Class N (street rod) vehicle. 6
(c) (1) In addition to the annual registration fee otherwise required under this 7
title, an owner of a vehicle assigned a registration plate under this section shall pay [when 8
initially issued the registration plate and each time the registration plate is renewed: 9
(1) A fee set by the Administration to recover the Administration’s costs 10
under this section; and 11
(2) A fee set by the Administration to be credited to the Gasoline and Motor 12
Vehicle Revenue Account for distribution under § 8–403 or § 8–404 of this article]: 13
(I) $100 WHEN INITIALLY ISSUE D THE REGISTRATION P LATE; 14
AND 15
(II) $25 EACH TIME THE REGIST RATION PLATE IS RENE WED. 16
(2) FEES COLLECTED UNDER THIS SUBSECTION SHALL BE : 17
(I) USED TO RECOVER THE ADMINISTRATION ’S COSTS UNDER 18
THIS SECTION; AND 19
(II) CREDITED TO THE GASOLINE AND MOTOR VEHICLE 20
REVENUE ACCOUNT FOR DISTRIBUT ION UNDER § 8–403 OR § 8–404 OF THIS 21
ARTICLE. 22
(d) The special registration plate issued under this section shall[: 23
(1) Be available for sale for 1 year from the date of initial issuance; and 24
(2) Resemble] RESEMBLE the black lettering on yellow background 25
registration plate issued by the State for display on a motor vehicle in 1910. 26
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 27
October 1, 2025. 28